History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 213 (part 2)
[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] The name is also spelled Skonanoky^ and is apparently derived from Shunna, sour, and na excellent, nuk^ local — probably referring to the abundance of wild grapes found there. On the east side of the mountain, in the town of Cornwall, and near the centre of the Wilson patent, was an Indian burial grond, so.designated in a survey by General James Clinton. In its vicinity on the north is a hill which was called Winegtekonk, now known as Woodcock mountain. Further west, in the town of Goshen, what is called Run-bolt's-run, preserves in its name and source, the name and place of resi dence of Rombout, one of the chiefs who signed the deed for the Wawayanda tract, whose wigwam stood beside the spring from which the stream flows. A modern tradition associates the name of Wawastawa, another of the grantors of the tract, with the stream, through his daughter, to whom a Frenchman named Boltez made love. The maiden rejected his suit and fled to-382 HUDSON RIPER INDIANS. wards her father's cabin. Just then her father's shrill whistle was heard, and she paused in her flight and exclaimed, " Run, Bolt, Run " an exclamation which, when the story came out, was applied to the streamlet. On Sugar Loaf mountain, in